Making the “Mission Critical” Call on Supply Chain Crisis
In today’s ever-changing world, it is not enough to simply onboard vendors and complete annual health and due diligence assessments on them.
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As reported in SCMR last week, Dun & Bradstreet’s and E2open’s team of data and analytics experts, joined together to provide insights on the impact of this incident on global supply chains, focusing on the global business impact that this blockage will cause industries and countries long-term.
Brian Alster, General Manager, Third-Party Risk & Compliance, Dun & Bradstreet, has shared an additional insight with us regarding this episode
We asked him: What do you regard as best practices for supply chain managers in managing the fall-out of the Suez Canal and how they can avoid third-party risks generally?
His response:
While the Suez Canal incident demonstrates the interconnectedness that comes with globalization and our reliance on each other as contributors to the global supply chain, it also sheds light on the opportunity to tap into the benefits of a company’s geographically dispersed supply chain. In the near-term, it is mission-critical that supply chain leaders complete an assessment of their critical vendors and suppliers to determine if any businesses they work with have been impacted by the incident - causing a single point of failure to a company’s supply chain.
A determination can then be made to work with alternative suppliers in non-impacted regions of the world, engaging them to offset the delays of suppliers traveling through the Suez Canal region.
In today’s ever-changing world, it is not enough to simply onboard vendors and complete annual health and due diligence assessments on them.
Companies must develop a data-driven risk-based assessment process to identify and continuously monitor a variety of risks that could impact the productivity of their supply chain - creating a more flexible and agile network that can quickly pivot in any circumstance or during any unexpected event.
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Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor Mr. Burnson is a widely-published writer and editor specializing in international trade, global logistics, and supply chain management. He is based in San Francisco, where he provides a Pacific Rim perspective on industry trends and forecasts. He may be reached at his downtown office: [email protected].Subscribe to Supply Chain Management Review Magazine!
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